William H. Harris, an African American who was born in Henrietta County, Virginia, died on 14 October 1910 in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Several local newspapers provided a brief obituary: From the Harrisburg Patriot, 4 November 1910: W. H. Harris The funeral of W. H. Harris, a Civil War veteran who died at his home, […]
John Peter Crabb, Civil War veteran and native of Gratz, Pennsylvania, moved to Harrisburg after the Civil War, where he became a founder and Commander of Stevens Post No. 520, G.A.R. and was very active in Republican Party politics. He was previously profiled here, and last week a blog post told of a fair held […]
John Peter Crabb, Civil War veteran and native of Gratz, Pennsylvania, moved to Harrisburg after the Civil War, where he became a founder and Commander of Stevens Post No. 520, G.A.R. He was previously profiled here, but not included in that article was a fair conducted by that post in 1889 for the purpose of […]
In the 1860 Census of Washington Township, (Post Office Elizabethville), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, there appears a family identified in the “Color” column as “m” for Mulatto. The head of the family was Marks Hornet, a 38 year-old laborer. He indicated to the census that he was born in Pennsylvania, that did not own any real […]
Additional information is sought on the following African American Civil War veterans: From the Harrisburg Patriot, 21 April 1913: JAMES E. DENT James E. Dent, aged 72 years, died Saturday morning at his home, 1102 North Cameron Street [Harrisburg] after a long illness. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post […]
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